Fun fact: Every government shutdown in the last 30 years occurred when Republicans had control of the House of Representatives.
Last time it happened, it drove people to food pantries and forced an $8b hit to the economy. They treat people missing paychecks like it’s no big deal
@CNN Why do people care so much what other people do with their bodies?! I don’t see those same people having the same anger towards guns when guns actually kill living and breathing children. 🤔
The Supreme Court's recent rulings were sadly predictable for anyone who understands the hard-right agenda. Their goal has always been to install Justices whose job is to turn back the clock on our freedoms, on decades of constitutional decisions, and on our continuing struggle to “form a more perfect union” that includes all of us.
Let's vote out their political enablers and rein in the dark, subversive money that supports them in their quest to reverse a century of progress.
In 1984. Recent law school grad Greg Abbott was jogging in the affluent Houston, Texas suburb of River Oaks. When he jogged past Divorce attorney Roy Moore's home. A giant oak tree broke and tragically fell on Greg Abbott. Crushing his spine and leaving him paralyzed. Uninsured and unemployed. Abbott had no health insurance. He had over $81,000 in hospital bills. He sued. Abbott got his hospital bills paid and received over $5.7 million dollars in payouts from Moore's home insurance and the tree services company who failed to detect the tree was rotten inside. Still to this day Greg Abbott gets a monthly check that includes cost of living increases each year. And will receive a check for the rest of his life. When Abbott was on the Texas Supreme court . He voted to decrease the amount of money someone in a similar situation could receive. Gregg Abbott supported capping non medical damages in cases like his at $250,000. A reward like the multi million dollars in payouts Abbott received and still receives each and every month till the day he dies would be impossible today. Of course these bills were crafted to not be retroactive. So they do not affect Greg Abbotts payments. Gregg Abbott does everything he can to hurt us Texans. While he laughs all the way to the bank every month with his very generous monthly check that he happily denies to another Texan who is injured in the same way as Abbott was. It goes without saying. This is another example of a GOP hypocrite. OK for me but not for any other Texan. That should be Gov. Greg Abbotts theme song for his life. What a despicable man who cares nothing about anyone's pain and suffering. He got his and to Abbot and the GOP. That's all that matters. @NewBlueUSA #DemVoice1
Let me get this straight, “guns don’t kill people” but…
- Target merchandise makes you gay
- Bud Light makes you trans
- history books make you Marxist
Is that right?
I'm a pediatrician so there's some basic stuff I know.
What's NOT bad for kids?
Rainbow clothes
Spacious swimsuit bottoms
Stories & poems
Learning the history of your country
Gender affirming healthcare
What IS bad for kids?
School shootings
Teaching them to hate
Easy peasy!
@NoLieWithBTC @kdw_8437 The fact that these “chaplains” will not be required to get background checks tells you everything you need to know about Texas Republicans.
Dear Republicans,
If you don’t like a trans woman being featured on a can of Bud Light, don’t drink Bud Light.
If an M&M in sneakers offends you, don’t eat M&Ms. If Cracker Jill hurts your feelings, don’t eat that stuff either.
If you don’t like the fact that Target sells LGBTQ+ merchandise, don’t shop there.
And if Amanda Gorman’s famous poem, “The Hill We Climb” upsets you, then don’t read it.
The point is that no one is forcing you to do any of that shit. But YOU don’t get to decide if the rest of us can.
This guy swooned yesterday over MTG giving him $100k for a tube of cherry chapstick that touched his lips, so now he’s projecting his insecurity about it on TV.
Sorry, bud. The only person here holding the entire US economy hostage because they’ve completely lost control is you
.@RizoUvalde made one more trip to the Capitol on Tuesday. The uncle of 9-year-old Jackie Cazares, who was killed in the Robb Elementary shooting in #Uvalde, TX, came to speak for his family and all families who are survivors of mass shootings. https://t.co/SAS24Z0c5G
In the year since the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas:
▪️ 663 mass shootings
▪️ 1703 kids killed by guns
▪️ $20M+ donated to Republicans by the gun industry
▪️ 27 🔴 states proposing laws making it easier to access guns
It's the guns.
It's the gun lobby.
It's the Republicans.